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Season 7, Episode 13: New Kindles + Reviewing Our Spooky Season Reading

Currently Reading

Meredith Schwartz

Allthebooks, Books, Read, Arts, Bookpodcast, Reading, Whatshouldireadnext, Society & Culture

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and KMary are discussing:

  • Bookish Moments: finding new ways to listen to audiobooks and getting new kindles

  • Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we’ve been reading lately

  • Deep Dive: how our spooky season reading is going so far

  • The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives

Show notes are time-stamped below for your convenience. Read the transcript of the episode (this link only works on the main site)

2:04 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week

2:37 - Spotify

2:57 - libro.fm

3:04 - Everand

8:01 - Fabled Bookshop

8:39 - New Kindle Colorsoft

9:15 - Viozon Tablet Stand Pillow 

11:58 - Kindle Paperwhite

12:49 - Our Current Reads

13:19 - Bad Cree by Jessica Johns (Mary)

13:28 - Hearts and Daggers Podcast

18:52 - Someone in the Attic by Andrea Mara (Meredith)

18:57 - All Her Fault by Andrea Mara

21:06 - Fabled Bookshop

22:31 - Blackwell’s UK

23:50 - A Bit Much by Lyndsay Rush (Mary)

24:00 - @maryoliversdrunkcousin on Instagram

26:46 - The Courage to be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga (Meredith)

32:46 - The Pumpkin Princess and the Forever Night by Steven Banbury (Mary)

34:25 - Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend

36:08 - After Oz by Gordon McAlpine (Meredith)

41:20 - How to be Eaten by Maria Adelmann

42:07 - Book Talk, etc.

42:20 - How Spooky Reading Is Going

44:58 - A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

45:29 - 101 Horror Books to Read Before You’re Murdered by Sadie Hartmann

48:41 - It’s Easier Than You Think by Sylvia Boorstein

51:16 - Meet Us At The Fountain

51:30 - I wish AI would fill in my reading tracker for me. (Mary)

51:32 - Currently Reading Patreon

55:39 - A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

55:41 - Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness

56:09 - I wish more authors would write series knowing we will read them all. (Meredith)

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey readers, welcome to the currently reading podcast. We are bookish best friends who spend time every week

0:16.8

talking about the books that we've read recently and as you know we won't shy away from

0:21.8

having strong opinions so get ready.

0:25.0

We are light on the chit-chat, having on the book talk, and our descriptions will always be spoiler-free.

0:30.1

Today we'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive, and then we'll visit the fountain.

0:34.4

I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz, a mom of four and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas,

0:39.4

and sometimes I buy things I do not need.

0:42.4

And I'm Mary Hym, a therapist and mom of one living in Wisconsin and the

0:46.8

kindergarten germ parade has been really messing with my reading this week.

0:51.2

This is episode number 13 of season six and we are so

0:55.2

glad you're here. Oh Mary I'm so glad to be recording with you and also I

0:59.5

understand the kid germ situation.

1:04.0

Yes, you know, I thought I knew it from preschool,

1:07.6

but this is a whole other beast,

1:10.2

and I am just trying to roll with it.

1:12.6

I was talking to Betsy, we are buddy reading an audiobook right now,

1:16.0

or it's for me it's on audio,

1:17.5

and I told her I was like,

1:18.5

my brain just doesn't have,

1:20.3

it's not happening for me.

1:21.8

I'm gonna call it right now, and I'll come back to you next week.

1:25.0

Like we're just doing what we need to do.

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